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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yup. A lot of survivor bias going on with the remaining crop of CRTs out there. Granted, there were probably a lot of perfectly good tubes that got thrown out back in the 2000's. But the ones we have left still need repair now and then.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

And a lot of them don't have the brightness they did back then. These aren't going to last forever, which is why good upscaling solutions for modern TVs are important.